March 2012

Peruse Reynolds's web link Toopology,
accompanying his feature "Tales From Toopographic Oceans" that
looks at the cultural politics of his fellow author and critic,
David Toop, in The Wire 338.

An
interview with the curator and critic Nicolas Bourriaud at
Frieze magazine As explored in
Postproduction and particularly in his most recent book
The Radicant, Bourriaud’s interest in translation, the
exotic, and what he calls “the viatorization of art forms” (in
response to the effects of increased mobility, migration, cheap air
travel, the Internet, etc) have obvious applications to Toop’s own
work as a critic and curator.

Kid
Shirt A twist on the Hassell concept, “5th
World” is the coinage of mysterious blogger Kek-W and a topic he
regularly returns to toy with some more at his Kid Shirt blog. But
here is a specific post (at the blog’s old location) where he
unpacks the idea.

Nomadic
Utopianism An interesting blog exploring the
intersection of politics, philosophy and music, by the unidentified
author of the forthcoming book The Shape Of Utopia To Come:
Improvising Music and Nomadic Politics.

Your Heart
Out Online HQ of the free e-zine by Kevin
Pearce. Although the taste coordinates don’t overlap that much, the
approach is very Toopy: an endless obsessive remapping of music’s
past, unlikely through-lines cutting across the archival space of
global pop, or in Pearce’s words, “making unexpected connections...
zooming off in a new direction to explore whatever turns up.” As
well as past issues that you can find here, YHO hosts
mixtapes ranging from Greek New Wave to South Korean psychedelic
soul. See also the companion blog Anywhere Else But Here
Today.